While Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha had declared the Union Budget 2018-19 as a ‘political document’, some of the plans mentioned in the fiscal budget may bode well for Indian aviation especially for the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme.

In the third week of January this year, Boeing unveiled the largest variant of the 787-10 Dreamliner, a next generation platform. The aircraft was awarded an Amended Type Certificate (ATC) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States.

In a scathing report released in the beginning of this year, the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture of the Indian Parliament has castigated the domestic carriers for overpricing of tickets...

Three of India’s low-cost carriers (LCC), IndiGo, AirAsia India and SpiceJet feature as India’s most punctual airlines in the OAG’s Punctuality League 2018. The airports at Chennai, Hyderabad and New Delhi...

The Indian airline industry reached a new high by flying ten crore passengers in 2017. The industry will be keenly watching the developments on Air India in 2018 and how much money the government would earn through disinvestment.

Amar Abrol MD and CEO of Bengalurubased no-frills carrier AirAsia India has said that the airline is looking to break even by December 2018 or early next year. The budget carrier will be completing four years in June 2018.

Terming the government’s regional air connectivity scheme UDAN a big success, Spice-Jet chief Ajay Singh has said the airline has not taken the viability gap funding (VGF) so far as the routes operated by it under the scheme are financially viable on their own.

ATR announces its first deal of 2018 which sees the introduction of the ATR -600 series in the US, to be operated by Silver Airways. The airline will introduce 20 ATR -600 aircraft into its fleet, of which 16 will be ATR 42-600s and four will be ATR 72-600s.

In conjunction with French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to China, CFM International concluded agreements and Memorandums of Understanding for new engine orders and long-term support agreements covering nearly 500 CFM engines.

Boeing unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV) prototype that will be used to test and evolve Boeing’s autonomy technology for future aerospace vehicles.

Addressing the Techfest organised by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay at the end of last year, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said the government is working on bringing in regulations...

The US aerospace giant Boeing has set a new record for the number of aircraft delivered in a year by surpassing its 2015 record of 762 deliveries by one. The company also grew its order backlog to a record 5,864 aircraft.

Annual passenger traffic through Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at Bengaluru, crossed 25 million last year. In India, this volume of passenger traffic is experienced only at the international airports at Delhi and Mumbai.

In recent times, the Indian civil aviation industry has been much in the news and for all the right reasons. This segment which has a vital role to play in the national economic growth, has been the focus of the NDA government since it came to power in 2014.